Easier - A bully is
someone who is mean and attacks other people with
words or actions. They use teasing, threats, or
strength to pick on, frighten, or hurt someone or take
what they want.

Harder - Bullying is
a form of aggressive and harassing behavior. This
antisocial behavior occurs across geographic, racial,
and socioeconomic segments of society. Bullying
prevents its targets from enjoying a safe, stress-free
living, learning, and working environment. Children
who bully are at risk for a host of long term,
negative developmental outcomes including juvenile and
adult criminal behavior. Early intervention in the
home, school, and the community are the best hope we
have of diverting people from this destructive
pattern.

This website is dedicated to increasing the
awareness of, and the problems associated with,
bullying and to preventing, resolving and eliminating
bullying in society. Here you find find stories,
drawings, and poems about kids' experiences with
bullies.

Create An Anti-Bullying Poster.
First, investigate and identify the types
of bullying, characteristics of a bully,
and the effects and emotions surrounding
bullying. Then create a poster which
conveys a strong message against bullying
practices. Display your completed
work.

Complete A WebQuest On
Bullying. Adapt or follow the
directions found at one of these webQuest
sites:

Keep A Bullying Journal. How
prevalent is bullying in your life? Decide
to monitor and record all incidents of
bullying that you observe during a
two-week period. Keep a journal during
that time in which you record and
summarize each event and reflect on the
emotions that are evoked. At the end of
this period, analyze all the information
gathered to provide a report that includes
the amounts and types of incidents, an
indication of their impact, and how you
feel about them. Also reflect on any
attitude or emotional changes that you
experience during this observation/study
time.

Write A Poem About Bullying.
Think about bullying that has impacted
your life. Express your feelings in a poem
about bullying. If you want more ideas
about poetry and writing of poetry, try
visiting another 42eXplore project
from eduScapes: Poetry for
Kids (http://42explore.com/poetry.htm).

Role Play A Bullying Situation.
First individually or in a small group,
write up a half-dozen realistic scenarios
for a bullying incident. Exchange your
completed scenarios, and select the best
ones for role-play. In your role-playing
groups, plan your performance and expand
the concept to include alternate endings.
In the group performance, avoid overacting
the incidents and do not
include any actual physical
contact such as hitting, pushing, pulling,
etc. Fake it when needed. After the
enactment, discuss other possible tactics
and include ideas and reactions from your
audience.

Produce An Anti-Bullying
Brochure. For this activity, your
audience could be your peers and
schoolmates. Plan and design a brochure
aimed at convincing or reminding others
about bullying, its harmful effects, and
be sure to include recommended strategies
for dealing with bullies. Illustrate your
brochure. Display your finished work. See
if you can find funding for having it
printed and distributed locally.

Bullying among children and teenagers has often
been dismissed as a normal part of growing up. Little
attention has been paid to the devastating effects of
bullying, or to the connection between bullying and
other forms of violence. In recent years, however,
students and adults around the country have begun to
make a commitment to stop bullying in their schools
and communities.

Childhood should be a time filled with wonder and
joy, but the reality for many kids is often much
different. This article aimed at parents, points out
that children are the victims of bullying at school or
on neighborhood playgrounds.

"It looks like bullying is a continuum of
behaviors. Rather than labeling a kid a bully, a
non-bully or a victim, it seems that many of the
students engage in bullying behavior, although most
reported low to moderate levels of that behavior,"
said the researchers.

This Australian group is working to create
learning environments where every student and school
community member is safe, supported, respected, valued
 and free from bullying, violence, harassment
and discrimination.

This is a non-profit organization working to
transform schools, camps and organizations focused on
children and youth, into more compassionate, safe and
respectful environments. The organization disseminates
educational resources that are designed to establish a
climate that reduces the emotional and physical
cruelty some children inflict upon each other by
behaviors such as ridicule, bullying and-in extreme
cases-violence.